The role of DNA ligase in DNA replication is to

a. add more nucleotides to the growing strand one at a time.
b. open up the two DNA strands to expose template strands.
c. ligate base to sugar to phosphate in a nucleotide.
d. bond Okazaki fragments to one another.
e. remove incorrectly paired bases.


Answer: d. bond Okazaki fragments to one another.

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